Afghan Muslims Murder Christian Aid Worker, Children as He Sought to Protect Them

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(The Times Live) – South African aid worker Werner Groenewald tried in vain to protect his two children moments before they were shot dead by the Taliban in Afghanistan at the weekend.

“They shot Werner in his office in the leg and then he ran upstairs to go try and protect his children [Rode and Jean-Pierre],” Groenewald’s sister-in-law Riana du Plessis, who lives in Pretoria, told Sapa on Monday.

Minutes later the family was dead.

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Du Plessis said: "They thought Werner was a missionary trying to convert Muslims to Christians, but Werner was not. He was an aid worker there to uplift Afghanistan. He

How much culpability sits with missionary organisations that for decades have sent missionaries to Afghanistan and Pakistan with "aid-worker" cover stories?